Pacquiao focus on footwork and speed in training

Touch to the intense practice was pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao on his second day of high altitude training in Baguio City. At 7: 00 am just after Pacquiao began his rehearsal to make sure he is in fair condition against Juan Manuel Marquez on November 12 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Roach arrived with Venezuelan Jorge Linares, who will serve as Pacquiao’s sparring partner until the team leaves for Los Angeles a month before the fight to continue training at the Wild Card Gym.

That’s besides his usual road work of 21 minutes at the Burnham Park. The Pacman repeated the same routine yesterday although this time, he did his road work at the rolling

Pacquiao will destroy Marquez?

The third fight between these two great fighters in the boxing world is just less than 4 months away as Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez 3 will face next on November 12th, 2011 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. In this fight Pacquiao will defend his WBO (World Boxing Organization) Welterweight World title with the great Mexican fighter Juan Manuel Marquez. Juan Manuel Marquez is one of the fighters that has a lot of hard work to beat Pacquaio mainly due to the great combination of punches, precision and speed that can possess by Juan Manuel "Dinamita" Marquez. No doubt this is the best boxing match of 2011 and perhaps

Instant replay in Pacquiao vs Marquez 3 fight

If you see on other major sports leagues such as the National Basketball Association, National Football League and National Hockey League that they using an instant replay to see some lapses made by referee right it might be possible in boxing also. The chief of the Nevada Athletic Commission has found a way to review possible lapses made by referees in boxing matches. The solution comes in the form of the instant replay, and for the first time in boxing history, it will be implemented in the third fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez in November. The commission has approved to use instant replays on the Pacquiao vs Marquez fight on Nov. 12 in Las Vegas. Instant replay is the replaying of video footage of an event or incident in a sport event very soon after it has occurred.

Expensive tickets for Pacquiao vs Marquez 3 fight

Boxing fans can't wait to see again Manny Pacquiao in action once again against Juan Manuel Marquez this coming November 12. Tickets to the rubber match won’t be available until the first week of August but Arum said the priciest will retail at $1,200, while the cheapest will be sold at around $200. The 17,000-seat MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas will host the World Boxing Organization welterweight title fight.

The $1,200 ringside seat will be the second most expensive for a Pacquiao headliner. When Pacquiao fought the legendary Oscar De La Hoya in December 2008 also at the MGM Grand, the price of a ringsise seat was $1,500. When Pacquiao faced Shane Mosley last month, a ringside ticket sold at $1,000 and Arum remains optimistic the extra $200 will not matter since Marquez should put on a gutsier stand against Pacquiao.

Pacquiao vs Marquez 3 on Nov 12, 2011

It was confirmed by the chief executive of the Golden Boy Promotions Richard Schaefer that Top Rank sent a formal written letter to WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez offering him $5 million dollar guarantee to fight Manny Pacquiao in his world welterweight title on November 12 in Las Vegas, Marquez accepted the offer and said that” it’s the fight I’ve been waiting for and I want to fight him”

According to Marquez, the catch weight is going to be 144 pounds and not 145 as what they previously outlined as disclosed by Micheal Koncz, the adviser of Pacquiao. Though Marquez had already accepted the fight, it was not yet official on what weight will they agreed to fight. As we know catch weight is a part of the negotiations for a third fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez. The Pacquiao vs Marquez 3 fight will favor Marquez if he wins the fight because he is going to jump from Lightweight to Welterweight and it’s a smooth way to make up his loss on his last fight with Mayweather.

In their previous fight, Pacquiao vs Marquez III fought two great times: first on a controversial draw in their 2004 featherweight championship fight and a split decision 2008 junior lightweight title fight in favor of Pacquiao. From now then on, Marquez has been challenging Pacquiao for a third fight with regards to the controversial decision in their fight.

Marquez wears ‘I beat Pacquiao twice’ shirt

Mexican boxing champion Juan Manuel Marquez said he has become more keyed up for a possible third bout with Fighter of the Decade Manny Pacquiao.

“Pacquiao, Pacquiao, Pacquiao, I sound like a broken record already,” Marquez said in the post-fight press conference. He wore a shirt that stated, “I beat Pacquiao twice,”.

He now boasts of a record of 52-5-1, including 38 knockout wins. In the press conference, Marquez reiterated his call, saying he should be the next challenger to the 8-division champion Pacquiao.

“Yes, he beat bigger fellows but they are all past their prime while I beat younger and stronger boxers like Juan Diaz and Michael Katsidis,” he claimed.

The boxer said he will fight Pacquiao if the latter agrees to fight at 140 to 142 lbs.

“I know he can make that weight as when he fought Margarito, he was just 144 lbs. So if they insist in fight at 147, like Freddie Roach has mentioned, they are again giving excuses,” he said.

Pacquiao’s Hall-of-Famer coach had said that the boxing superstar will only fight next in the welterweight division. He said the Filipino boxer seems more “comfortable” weighing at 147 lbs.

Marquez calls out Pacquiao

The brash Mexican called on boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao to face him so they could prove once and for all who between the two of them is the better fighter.Marquez made the challenge shortly after disposing of Michael Katsidis in the ninth round of their title fight to retain his World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) lightweight belts at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“Pacquiao, Pacquiao, Pacquiao, I sound like a broken record already,” said Marquez during the post-fight interview.

“I will fight him at 140 or even 142 lbs. I know he can make that weight as when he fought Margarito,” added the soft-spoken Mexican. He noted how Pacquiao, his long-time rival, came in at 144 lbs. at the official weigh-in of his recent super-welterweight fight with Antonio Margarito.

The challenge Marquez hurled is just the latest in a series his camp has made on the 31-year-old Pacquiao, the same fighter whom he turned down in 2004 when a rematch was in the planning stage. That controversial title fight had ended in a draw. Pacquiao knocked Marquez thrice in a blazing start in that action-packed bout. But the Mexican stood up each time, rallied in the later rounds, and eventually salvaged a draw to retain his featherweight belts.

A return match was immediately worked on, but the Marquez camp turned down the proposed 50-50 split of the purse. Marquez eventually relented to a second meeting with the Pacman in 2008. It was a bloody encounter that saw the Filipino pride escaping with a controversial split decision, a result that obviously didn’t sit well with the Mexican fighter. Up to this day, Marquez insists he won both times over Pacquiao, now the world’s top pound-for-pound fighter.